Friday, December 12, 2008

Saturday To: All Night Drug Prowling Wolves

It's a reunion. Lloyd Benjamin, who grew up here and played in at least a half dozen great Little Rock bands before moving to Atlanta to open the trendy Get This! art gallery, returns to town with his band, All Night Drug Prowling Wolves. He's joined on the bill with longtime homies Alan Disaster and Jeremy Brasher and their locally beloved bands, Smoke Up Johnny and the Moving Front, respectively. Way back when, they all lived together in “the Mansion,” the white house on the corner of Third and Pulaski that was, for years, the punk house in Little Rock. Formed out of the ashes of beloved ATL act the Rent Boys, All Night Drug Prowling Wolves come to White Water behind a just released self-titled LP. True to their Clash-lyric-inspired name, the band makes hook-heavy post punk with a bite. If memory serves, live, they all get sweaty and thrash around a lot.

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